On the 31st, a weekend day, Beelman gave the players a day off - there was no practice.
Gan Guoyang invited Gan Guohui, Chen Xing, and Xu Xun, the three teammates he was closest to, to go to Oakland to watch The Warriors' season opener at home.
Contrary to his expectations, he thought the three would enthusiastically agree to go, but each of them had a reason for not attending.
Gan Guohui said he had a date, Chen Xing had to attend a math tutoring class, and Xu Xun had to stay in the shop to help out.
Even though Guoyang said the tickets were free as someone had offered them, they still did not accept, clearly showing no interest in The Warriors' season opener.
One can imagine how insignificant the NBA's influence was at the time since the season's opener was not televised, there was no large-scale advertising, and it all happened very quietly.
If it weren't for Sermonde's call to Guoyang, he wouldn't even have known that the new NBA season had started two days earlier.
